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...World Economic Forum to make responsible globality the theme of this year's annual meeting in Davos. Of course there have been a lot of comments--gleeful or disappointed--about the globalization process being stalled or even in retreat and looking at the crisis as a setback for global capitalism. The actions taken by some economies to protect themselves from the vagaries of gigantic short-term capital flows swinging wildly on the basis of the herd instinct would seem to be a case in point...
Though Jane's character is constantly worked on--even labored at--it is so insubstantial, so suppressed by its own struggle to define itself that Jane never appears to us as a real person. This is the novel's greatest setback: it doesn't manage to outgrow its fairy tale from. We have the castle, the king and the queen. We have the princess who doesn't fit into her role, who pretends to an identity of her own, who steps out of line. We have a sort of conflict, a sort of quest, and eventually our princes resolves...
...manufacturers and financial firms) and some that don't (like food- and drugmakers). If you own too much stock in the company for which you've worked for decades--a common condition in these days of company stock options and company-stock matches in 401(k) plans--an unexpected setback for that company or its industry could wipe you out. Guy Cambie, a certified financial planner in Austin, Texas, urges investors to divorce themselves from the sentiment of any particular stock. One solution: mutual funds, in which, as Cambie notes, diversification is done...
Coach Frank Sullivan can claim that "the best team won tonight" and that "the Princeton game had nothing to do with [Harvard's 81-56 setback at Penn]," but these are merely the coded phases a coach must say when his team is soundly trounced...
Fourth, according to The Crimson, "One high-ranking official expressed concern that Berkowitz 'has become obsessed with this [case]' and is discrediting himself' by harping on the Harvard setback rather than moving onto another institution." I am touched that this "high-ranking official," who for some reason refuses to disclose his or her identity, has become concerned for my future. But I can't help wondering about the quality of concern, to say nothing of the purported access to my inner state, inasmuch as no member of the University administration has uttered so much as a single word...